The most common phrase that I heard in the last 2 days was "I don't want to go home!". Me too but at times, I flipped to not minding going home bcos I was tired. 玩够了.
We were all obviously tired bcos I overslept for gym and when I was back at 8am, none of them had awaken. It is Bfast time! Wakey! Nothing stops us from enjoying our last bfast for the trip.
Daddy Lim and the kids headed to the pool so that I had time to pack. Nana told me that she too went down the slide 2x, dont ask me how she did it with 1 foot. I was hoping to score a late checkout but was told that the hotel was full. We had to checkout at 12pm.
That's what we did. We didn't rush or squeeze anything after the swim. We checked out on the dot and went for lunch.
After lunch was more roaming of Platinum Mall bcos there was too little time to go anywhere else. Then we got bored of Platinum Mall. Hmmm.. I think we walked here already.. here too.. here too. Zzzzzz.
We were back in the hotel at 2pm for the transfer to the airport and ordered a big Taxi for THB700. We decided that it would be prudent to be at the airport early with the paika.
Bye Bangkok!
The traffic was reasonable and we arrived in 45 mins. The check in took a long time, requiring Nana to declare that her injury was sustained before the flight. This time, we were allowed to check in her wheelchair at the gate and to bring the crutches onto the flight.
Nana had earned us another priority Q.
We joked that we should keep her aircast and take turns to wear the cast for future travels. Lol. Idea.
Dinner is a must bcos I didn't purchase inflight meals. Daddy Lim wanted Taco Bell. This was also my 1st Taco Bell experience.
I had to have my last mango sticky rice. I asked if anybody would want to share with me and nobody raised their hands. I went ahead and then everybody wanted to have some. Zzzzz. The mango sticky rice was so much better. Hoho.
We waited and didn't see our plane. I had expected a turnaround flight and slight delay like my last Scoot flight from Jakarta.
My heart skipped a little when we finally saw the plane turned in. Strangely, we didn't see anybody disembarked. So it wasn't a turnaround flight?
We waited and waited and it was nearing flight time without hearing announcements for boarding. Then, we saw passengers exiting the gate, possibly to look for food. It was afterall dinner time. The number attempting to leave the gate increased by the minute and soon a crowd had formed at the gate, asking for an update. We were seated right beside the action, allowing for eavesdropping. It was then that I heard about some technical issues and the flight will be delayed for AT LEAST 2 hours.
News spread so quickly despite the absence of a formal announcement. Soon, everybody was leaving the gate and each passenger was given a meal voucher of THB 300 (about S$12). We had more food and spent the remaining $$ on snacks. Instead of the vouchers, we rather go home. Delayed!
When we went back to the gate at about 8pm and we saw that the estimated departure was updated to 8.30pm. Just when we were entering the gate, we were told that the departure time had been adjusted to 9.30pm. Kena cheated. We roamed somemore before joining the rest of the passengers in the "we really hope it would be 9 30pm" wait.
Imagined how excited we all were when we saw the staff preparing for boarding! Again, the paika got us priority access though not for long bcos we needed to take a bus to the plane, that had been parked in some ulu part of the airport. As expected, the bus load of people hoard the plane upon arrival. Who cares about the paikas? I counted 3 paikas on the flight. Lol.
The flight didn't take off until about 10.15pm. We all slept. We touched down at 1ish when we were supposed to have been back at 9pm. It was already 3am when we got home, unpacked and settled down. Daddy Lim and I had to work the next day. I could at least steal a couple more hours of sleep by working from home but poor Daddy Lim had to go to the yard.
Sleep! Sleep!
Mummy Lim
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